Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as the Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock.
Source: Fresno Bee
The New York Times gives a video sneak peek of Audra McDonald's first solo album in seven years, "Go Back Home," which comes out today. In the video, she accompanies herself on piano as she sings Adam Guettel's "M ...
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Source: The Washington Post
One fine day in 1957, a 15-year-old named Carol Klein got off the express train from Brooklyn to Manhattan with schoolbooks under one arm and sheet music under the other. She wore bobby socks, white sneakers and a black skirt wi ...
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Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors who had a dramatic impact on rock ‘n' roll, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, ...
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"I heard no color line in the music.... To bring recognition to the negro's supremacy in jazz was the most effective and constructive form of social protest I could think of" said John Henry. Most jazz enthusiasts and even aficionados would find it ha ...
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A prom torn apart by segregation never occurred -- until 2013, when the class of 1963 reunited. It was time for prom, and the class of 1963 filled the dance floor, looking back on their high school years. The ...
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SOUTH HAVEN, MI-- (Begin movie trailer announcer's voice.) To a sunny and sandy lakeshore town, they come. Thousands of invaders. Some come to sit in the dark, to stare at flickering images. Others come to hypnotize the populace with manufactured drea ...
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It didn't seem right to Clinton Shepherd that the birthplace of the Ferris wheel didn't hold the record for the longest Ferris wheel ride. "I thought Chicago should have that title," he said Sunday, after ...
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Source: Crain's Detroit Business
The buildings are low slung and filled with collision centers and cash-checking centers separated by wide swaths of parking. The sun beats down on the pavement, leaving little relief for pedestrians walking along Livernois Avenue. As they approach Seven ...
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